- Allow maximal sense size limitation via Control Extension mode page.
- When sense size limited, include descriptors atomically: whole or none.
- Set new SDAT_OVFL bit if some descriptors don't fit the limit.
- Report real written sense length instead of static maximal 252 bytes.
MFC after: 2 weeks
VMware tries to enable this bit to avoid multiple threshold notifications
in case of multiple initiators connected to the same LUN. Unfortunately
their code sends MODE SELECT(6) request with parameter length hardcoded
for the page without any thresholds. Since we have four threshold and our
page is bigger, this attempt fails, that is correct in my understanding.
So all we can do about this now is to report proper error code and hope
VMware fix their code one day.
MFC after: 2 weeks
While CTL still has no real events to report in this way (like SMART),
it is possible to trigger false event by manually setting TEST bit in
Informational Exceptions Control mode page, that can be useful for
initiator testing. This code supports all flavours of IE reporting:
UNIT ATTENTION, RECOVERED ERROR and NO SENSE sense keys, REQUEST SENSE
command and Informational Exceptions log page.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
be accessed by root. It uses unsigned ints instead of size_t
to preserve the ABI.
PR: 207627
Submitted by: ryan@ryanday.net (with slight tweaks)
MFC after: 1 month
CTL itself has no limits on on UNMAP and WRITE SAME sizes. But depending
on backends large requests may take too much time. To avoid that new
configuration options allow to hint initiator maximal sizes it should not
exceed.
MFC after: 2 weeks
- Introduce "ha_shared" port option, which being set to "on" moves the
port into separate port group, shared between HA nodes. This allows to
better handle cases when iSCSI portals are bound to CARP address that can
dynamically move between nodes. Some initiators (at least VMware) don't
detect that after iSCSI reconnect they've attached to different SCSI port
from different port group, that totally breakes ALUA status parsing.
In theory, I believe, it should be enough to have different iSCSI portal
group tags on different nodes to make initiators detect this condition,
but it seems like VMware ignores those values, and even full LUN retaste
forced by UA does not help.
- Make CTL report up to three port groups: 1 -- non-HA mode or ports
with "ha_shared" option set, 2 -- HA node 1, 3 -- HA node 2.
- Report Transitioning state for all port groups when HA interlink is
connected, but neither of nodes is primary for the LUN.
MFC after: 2 weeks
